The cost of the city-wide testing effort was around 900 million yuan ($ 126 million).
Beijing:
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus epidemic first appeared, has found no new cases of COVID-19 and 300 asymptomatic carriers after testing most of its 11 million residents, said Tuesday city officials.
Authorities launched the ambitious citywide screening campaign on May 14 and reached 9.9 million people after a cluster of new cases raised concerns about a second wave of infections.
But they found no new cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus during the campaign, which lasted until June 1, officials told reporters during a briefing.
They said the asymptomatic carriers had not been infectious, with no traces of virus detected on items used by the 300 people, such as masks, toothbrushes and phones, or on the handles of door and the elevator buttons they touched.
China does not count asymptomatic carriers – people who are infected with the virus but do not have symptoms of the disease – as confirmed cases.
The central city, capital of Hubei province, went into receivership on January 23. It was lifted on April 8.
It was the hardest hit of all Chinese cities and accounts for the majority of 4,634 deaths and a total of 83,022 reported infections in mainland China.
The cost of the city-wide testing effort was around 900 million yuan ($ 126 million).
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